WIP : Academy 1/72 F-86F Sabre Pt. 1
While I struggle with bad fits on other builds, this particular bad fitting kit is finally up for painting. This 1/72 Academy F-86F will be my first ever BMF build. First up is base coating with gloss black. And since there’s no easy way to add a handle for easy er… handling, I decided to …...
WIP : Tamiya 1/72 SuperCobra Pt. 2
Majority of painting done though I’m still fixing the paintwork here and there by hand. Relatively trouble-free until I dropped it on my lap nose first and almost breaking off the nose gun. I had to carefully bend the 1 remaining barrel back straight and ran thin cement on the other two breakages....
WIP : Tamiya 1/72 SuperCobra Pt. 1
So after a few rounds of fixing seamlines, I thnk I’ll go ahead with the painting stage. It’s hardly flawless but I think I’ve gotten it as far as I’m willing to go. I cut the main rotor into 3 pieces after reading that Italeri (this is a Tamiya rebox) molded the blades on backwards. …...
WIP : 1/48 Bandai Snowspeeder Pt. 2
The interior of the cockpit was simply sprayed Black Grey and then given a light drybrush of Light Grey. Bandai includes decals that covers most of the interior but I decided against using them. After masking the inside of the canopy, painting begins with a black base of A&K Black Primer. I was concurrently painting …...
WIP : 1/48 A-4E Skyhawk ‘TOPGUN 56’ Pt. 2
Another queen (this time from 2011) joins the masses. 😀 This is a Hasegawa 1/48 Skyhawk kit to be draped as TOPGUN 56, an A-4E flown by the US Navy as an Aggressor. The scheme is very unique with a desert camo MiG-17 silhouette superimposed on the aircraft. This build is heavily reliant on the …...
WIP : 1/48 Bandai Snowspeeder Pt. 1
The plan is to learn weathering with this build as Star Wars vehicles frankly don’t look very good pristine (the prequels nonewithstanding). I took the opportunity to get more practice with the pilots, which won’t be all that visible, especially Dack the rear gunner. In any case, these come with decals for the helmets which...
WIP : 1/72 Skunkmodels Reaper Pt. 2
Yeah it took a while but I’m almost done with this one. There has been quite a few minor disasters but none too serious luckily. I still have the antenna, weapons and navigation lights left to complete. Hopefully I can finish this by the end of the week....
WIP : Games Workshop Space Marine Pt. 4
This is the first time I’m doing a terrained base of any kind so like all 21st Century nerd, I went to Youtube to get learn how to do it. I found the EonsOfBattle channel which offered easily followed tips. So first I fixed the base onto a block of styrofoam so it’s easy to …...
WIP : 1/72 Hasegawa VF-1A Valkyrie Pt. 6
To fix the gloss issue, I decided to try out Lifecolor Gloss Clear instead. I thinned it with water (by guesstimate) and went ahead to spray 2-3 layers. It’s really a lot easier to use than Future. So much so that I’m considering just using Future for other things instead of glossing. So anyway then …...
WIP : Games Workshop Space Marine Pt. 3
The box comes with a set of decals with a ton of choices of markings. I decided to go with an arrow on the right shoulder and the Ultramarines insignia on the left. To prep for them I brushed on some Future. Meantime, I painted the Purity Seal with Transparent Red on top of Foundation …...
